Jaros Nashville
I seem to be following a bit of a hollowbody theme this week although Jaros Guitars call them acoustic cavities, and the reason for this is probably because of their neck design which they say is their most important feature. With the 3/4 tenon neck through body design the guitar’s bridge, tuning pegs, nut, pickups & fingerboard are all connected to a single piece of crafted tone wood, which as you can imagine helps create resonance, attack, and sustain. This design apparently also improves the instruments stability, on either side of the through neck sit the acoustic chambers to enhance the tone. An interesting optional feature on Jaros guitars is the Blend Control Configuration, this consists of a Blend knob which allows you to mix the output from the neck and bridge pickups which gives you access to a wider range of tones combinations. This is accompanied by a Master volume superpot from RSGuitarworks and a push-pull tone control pot that gives you the option of playing the magnetic pickups in either humbucking or single coil mode. If you prefer a Gibson style set up you can opt for the Dual Volume Control Configuration with independent volume knobs and a push/pull knob for the coil splitter.

Jaros offer 3 different body styles and the one pictured left is their “Nashville” body that has a carved Quilted Maple top with a Transparent Charcoal finish, this sits on top of a Korina body. The neck is Mahogany with an Ebony fingerboard which has 24 frets and a 25″ scale length. This scale length is in between a Gibson and Fender scale length. The nut is made by Earvana, didn’t they write “Smells like teen spirit”? Having never heard of Earvana I looked them up, they have basically made a nut that uses compensated tuning to provide greater intonation. I can’t explain it as well as them so check their explanation here. The guitar also features a Kahler Tremelo and hand wound Lindy Fralin pickups.

A cool feature on the Jaros guitars website is their online guitar builder where you can choose from the various body types, finishes, hardware configurations etc. and see how the guitar will look before you order. Once you have decided on all the options you submit the form and then wait for the quote to be emailed to you. Make sure you check out the Sounds section to hear the kind of sounds possible with these instruments.